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Originally Posted by pwalker8
Lord of Light was available earlier, but no longer is. Sometimes, with audiobooks that were recorded in the early days of audiobooks, the older version gets pulled and then is re-released with a new narrator.
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This makes me sad. I like to listen to the Flashman books, but the most recent one I read,
Flashman in the Great Game, isn't available in audio. And yet Timothy West (a wonderful narrator) recorded it. The rights were pulled to Simon Vance's fantastic narration of the entire Aubrey/Maturin series (fortunately, those I already own). There are so many other examples. I do understand (although I deplore) the game of pulling titles to rerelease them with a different narrator, but I wish they could tolerate coexistence among narrations in the manner of different covers of songs. Alas. Follow the money.
I'm not as exercised by the thought of backlist books that never have/never will make it to audio, the economics of recording being so very different from releasing older titles as digital texts, but knowing that the narration exists yet won't be sold is depressing.